In Brave New West: Morphing Moab at the Speed of Greed, Jim Stiles rips into the amenity-oriented tourist economy that has transformed his once-beloved Moab, but he offers little in the way of useful alternatives.

In Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an
American Iconoclast, David Petersen assembles some of the
correspondence of Western writer Edward Abbey into an eminently
readable but ultimately unenlightening collection.